586 



CAPRIMULGID.E. 



white, often spotted witli rufous near the base, following primaries 

 brown, spotted with rufous ; inner secondaries similar to the upper 

 parts ; central pair of rectrices greyish brown, mottled and irre- 

 gularly barred with black ; three outer rectrices on each side largely 

 tipped with white, fourth with a white spot on the tip of the inner 

 web ; another band of white across the inner webs of the outer rec- 

 trices ; a band of white tinged with buff across the throat : 

 abdomen buff, irregularly barred with dark brown ; under wing- 

 coverts buff, more or less barred with brown. Total length about 

 9 inches, wing (M to 6*4, tail 4'-i to 4'7, tarsus 0-7. 



Adult female. Colours somewhat duller and more brownish, collar 

 less obvious, bands across the primaries buff ; tail brown and rufous 

 buff throughout, without any pure white colour. 



Toung. iSimilar to the adult specimens, the white spots already deve- 

 loped, but colours more brownish, quills narrowly tipped with white. 



Hah. From the Andes of Chili throughout Bolivia and the interior 

 of Brazil to Patagonia. 



a. cJ ad. sk. 



b, c. 5 ad. et c? 

 jr. sk. 



d. (S ad. sk. 



e. (S imm. sk. 

 /. c? ad. sk. 



g. cJad.; h. ^ad. 

 i. (S imm. sk. 

 k. 2 ad. sk. 



l-p. (5 ad. sk. 

 q. cJ ad. sk. 

 r, s, t. (S 2 ad. 



sk. 

 u. (S ad. st. 



V. S ad. ; w. cJ 



juv. sk. 

 X. 5 imm. sk. 



South America. 



Arequipa, Peru {H. Whi/eli/). 



Tilotilo, Prov. Yungas, Bolivia 



(C. BucMeii). 

 Coquimbo, Chili. 

 Chili {E. C. Reed). 

 ; Santiago, Chili [Landbeck Sf 



Let/botd) . 

 Coi'dillera de Santiago (E. C. 



Eeed). 

 Chili. 



Chili (Leijbnld). 

 Chili [Landbeck). 



Valparaiso. 



(' 

 Chupat, Patiigouia, May, Nov. 



Brazil (?). 



5. Stenopsis decxissata. 



Salvin-Godman Coll. 

 Sclater Coll. 



Salvin-Godman Coll. 



Dr. Coppinger [C] 

 Salvin-Godman Coll. 

 Sclater Coll. 



Sclater Coll. 



Purchased. 



Sclater Coll. 



H. Berkelev James, 



Esq. [P.J 

 C. Darwin, Esq. [P.], 

 ype of C. bifasciatus.) 

 II. Durnt'ord, Esq. 



[C] 

 Purchased. (C. reti- 

 culutus, Gray.) 



Caprimulgiis decussatu^, Tsch. Wiet/m. Arch. 1844, p. 2C'8; id.Fann. 



Peru. p. 126, pi. V. (1846); 2?jt>. Consp. i. p. 61 (ISoU). 

 Caprimulgus ajquicaudatus, Peale, U. S. Expl. Exp., Zool. B. p. 168 



(1848).' 

 Antrostomus sequicaudatus, Scl. P. Z. S. 1867, p. 342 (Lima) ; Scl. 



<^- 8alv. P. Z. S. 1868, p. 569 (Arequipa). 

 Stenopsis aequicaudata, Scl. 4' Sah: Nomencl. Av. Neotr. p. 96 (1873); 



iid. P. Z. S. 1879, p. 626 (Bolivia) ; Tacz. On,. Per. i. p. 222 (1884). 

 ? Stenopsis macrorhvncha, Salvad. Atti Soc. Ital. Sc. Nat. xi. p. 160 



(1868). 



Similar to St. longirostris, but smaller and paler, the ground-colour 

 being sandy buff, the collar on the hind neck paler, white spots on 

 the primaries narrower. Total length about 8 inches, wing o-4, 

 tail 4, tarsus O'Go. 



Hab. Peru. 



